In this issue:

• Gender Mainstreaming in Trade Policies, by Gigi Francisco, based on a brief presentation at a forum on “Doha, development and distribution: do we have a viable trade agenda for development?”
• Inaugural DAWN Training Institute
• Protesting WTO at Cancun
• MDGs – Most distracting gimmick. Extract from the paper by Peggy Antrobus examining how Millenium Development Goals could be made to work to promote women’s equality and empowerment in the CARICOM region.
• DAWN’s project on Health Sector Reform, Maternal Mortality and Abortion: a Global Policy Research Effort led by Sonia Correa
• African Union Adopts Protocol on the Rights of African Women
• No to negotiations for B+10? Women’s NGOs who gathered in New York for the March 2003 Commission on the Status of Women session agreed that a world conference on women should be held, but not in 2005; and that Beijiing +10 reviews should not have any text negotiations.
• What happened to human rights, gender justice and sustainable livelihoods? Comments on the “Follow-up on Johannesburg and the Future Role of the Commission on Sustainable Development – The Implementation Track”
• Women as economic player in sustainable development. Report of the first ever session on gender and trade at the WTO Public Forum
• Virtual Seminar on Intersectionality
• Reproductive Rights in Africa. Papers from DAWN’s participation in the AMANITARE conference that was held in Johannesburg 4-7 February
• Women on Waves: Debate on abortion in Poland
• US Conservatives Take Aim at NGOs
• Second Meeting of G8 – Civil Society Dialogue